TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SIMBIRSK SOVIET[1]

Written:Written on April 20, 1918Published:First published on January 19, 1928, in the newspaperProletarsky Put(Ulyanovsk) No. 16.

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Chairmanof the SovietSimbirsk

Informme by telegram of the circumstances and
conditions of election of heads of Chuvash teachers’ seminaries
for men and women. I am interested in the fate of
Inspector Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev, who has worked for fifty
years for the advance of the Chuvash people and suffered
persecution from tsarism. I think Yakovlev should not be
torn away from his life’s
work.[2]

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Atthe top of the document Lenin wrote: “Please send the bill 
 for this telegram to mepersonally.”—Ed.

[2]I.Y.Yakovlev established the first Chuvash school in the city of
Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), the birthplace of Lenin. He compiled
the first Chuvash alphabet and primer, and did a great deal
towards educating the Chuvash people.

Inreply to his inquiry Lenin received a telegram on May 4,
1918, saying that Yakovlev continued as chairman of the courses
and seminary for women.